The Sun. — London, England, 1838-04-16 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. The Committees of the various trades unions have deter- I mined, it seems, to celebrate the release of " the Dorches ter labourers" by marshalling some thousands of their fel low workmen this day upon Kennington-common, to march from thence with bands and banners, accompanied by the five uncaged lions, who will be exhibited gratis through the principal streets of the metropolis. From a published pro gramme of the procession, drawn up, we presume, by some amateur King-at-Arms, we learn that there will be the usual complement of heralds, pursuivants, and trumpets. That this mass of skinners, tanners, and curriers are to begin their day's work at " the Horns," and not to stop till they come to the usual terminus of the Rump—which, of course, is White Conduit House : and that on this special occasion neither a glass of gin nor a draught of heavy shall whet the whistle of a single processionist until the solemnities are over. The working men of London have generally had the reputation of being shrewd and sensible fellows : but they are sadly out, we think, in this foolish and unseasonable demonstration. Whether the Dorchester labourers were guilty or innocent of the particular misdemeanours for which they were tried and condemned, is not what we are now concerned about. But taking their case in the most favourable point of view, no man can deny that the effect of conferring anything like importance or celebrity upon them is calculated to operate injuriously upon ignorant multitudes, who, conceiving that a public testimony against the harsh application of a law is identical with a general approval of bold and suspicious ex ploits, are not only apt to cherish a vulgar appetite for dis tinction, without being over scrupulous about the means of gratifying it, but in following the example of their models, are almost certain to avoid what is least objectionable, and to imitate, exclusively, what is palpably vicious and bad. To see these returned convicts charioted and cheered by thou sands of their fellow-labourers is enough to excite half the journeymen, and 'prentices in London to covetanalogous hon ours,and to emulate the occasions which have raised them to such notoriety. The perambulations of immense columns of men through the most frequented streets cf the metropolis is farther objectionable on the score of inconvenience and, danger. On any day in the year an interminable proces sion marching in throughfares crowded with omnibuses, stages, and waggons, could scarcely fail to be productive both of serious interruption to passengers, and also of personal peril to those throngs of women and children who have not philosophy enough to turn with contempt from the unindictabie nuts .nee which these unionists are about to inflict upon public forbearance. But on Easter Mon day, when thousands of apprentices and children are re leased from work and school, such a procession is infinitely more hazardous than on any other day we could name, though we strongly suspect that this identical Mon day has been fixed on chiefly because the overgrown boobies who lead the strut expect to be proportion ably glorified by the eclat of a holyday mob. Then, for the sake of preserving order, an immense posse of police must be stationed along the entire line of procession ; and as this concentration of forces involves their temporary withdrawal from other parts of the town, the more experienced thieves are well aware that such a circumstance, aided by the absence of the sight-gazers from home, affords peculiar facilities for their professional operations. But one main object in calling attention to this affair is, if possible, to prevent con fusion and accidents. Parents and masters who permit their youthful dependents to go near it will incur a serious responsibility. Even people of riper age would do well to leave the Unionists to be their own exclusive ad- mirers. At all events the police, we dare say, are duly instructed to conduct themselves with the utmost extent of good temper and forbearance compatible with the preser vation of order. When numerous masses of men, indignant at the recollection of past irritations, and marching under the present excitement of music, flags, and strong poli tical feeling, are brought into conflict with the police (as is not uncommon in such cases), it is impossible to fore tell the disasters which may follow. The calamitous results of the assemblage in Calthorpe-street ought not to he forgotten. Indeed, we have very grave doubts whether such a meeting as this, partaking so much of a political character, and pregnant with such elements of public dan ger, should have been allowed to take place at all. At any rate, with the sufficient notice which Government have had of it, we consider it their bounden duty to have created a simultaneous diversion, either by a grand review in Hyde Park, or by some other plan, whereby this procession might have been left to drag itself along amidst the silence and security of streets comparatively deserted. Could not Mr. Spring Rice have undertaken to dance on the tight rope on ine top of the Bank? or Lord Gleneig to walk through the part of the Somnambu'i , t. at Greenwich fair? or Lord Melbeurne to play the " Gastronome sans a:gent" at Pimlico?—Tinres. Amongst the assaults in detail made by the Tories, in their lack of argument against, the general policy of the Government, the time and mode of the Coronation afford a fa% ourite. point of vituperative attack. Not only in lead ine articles, but in correspondences—the mercenary force and the volunteer auxiliaries—are the most frivolous and malevolent objections made against every proposed arrange ment of this national ceremony. First, the day is objected to, because, as a correspondent of the Times, who signs himself " Roger Old Style," observes, " it falls on Tuesday instead of the more usual and more convenient Thursday." 'For our own part, we cannot recognise any just cause of preference to Thursday over Tuesday, unless from the latter being connected with Shrovetide, the Tories, front the conscious enormity of their offences, may have an anf p Ally to crerything reminding them of the necessary puri fication :—and next, because " that fine old King, George IV., of munificent memory," died on the 26th of June, the day selected for the Coronation. This fine old piece of fustian crumbles to dust from its intrinsic rottenness, anct therefore it is not necessary to pollute our pen by dipping into the character of " that fine old King of munificent memory!" " George the Fourth !!" The next ground of objection is the curtailed expenditure. The very parties vvf'o arc so furiously and indecently indignant ag tinst the reputed extravagance of the Duchess of Kent, and against the anticipated expenditure of the mission of Lord Dur ham to Can Ida, term the arrangements for the Coronation to be "a beggarly piece of short-sighted economy." The Tories can be profuse or economical, as the suggestions of factious interests may prompt them. But the gravest acce , ation of all is " tee omission pro hac vice of the time honoured services, and trivial, but no doubt valued, p eileges of many of our Ba , ons," as it is termed, " a mean and petty device of her Majesty's low-born advisers to cast contempt on the patricians of the State." What, reader, do you think is the " time-honoured service" of which the omission is here complained ? Why, nothing more nor less than the privilege accorded by an ancient and absurd custom, to the Lords Spiritual and Temporal of kissing the Sovereign on the left check at the Coronation ! This would be lip service with a vengeance. No doubt the Barons would esteem it a bonne bouche. But how would her Majesty, we should like to know, relish such a close approximation of grey and grisly beards to her Royal countenance ? It would be perfectly disgusting, even in a single instance ; but for some hundreds of young and old Lords, many of them not of the purest character, to be allowed to press their liquorish lips on the cheek of a young and innocent Queen, would be a downright abomination, to which we would not consent even if the Peers were to promise a full acquiescence in all popular claims for the concession. If it were merely to kiss her Majesty's hand, or her toe, or any part less ap proximating to her Royal visage than the cheek, the objec tion might not be so insuperable ; but the bare idea of re ceiving such proofs of lordly allegiance on the cheek, must be to her Majesty too shocking for endurance. Yet this is one of the privileges for the sake of which our hereditary and spiritual legislators would throw the kingdom into com motion. Faugh !—Morning Advertiser. " The Session has now lasted upwards of five months, and yet nothing has been done." So say the Tories. Is the statement true ? Its truth is not to be denied. Who, then, are the parties who are to blame for this waste of the public time, and the disappointment of a nation's hopes ? The men in power ? Lord Melbourne and his colleagues ? Assuredly not, they are altogether guiltless. On whom, then, does the blame rest? Why on the very faction themselves who bring forward the fact of nothing being done as a charge against Ministers! To the Tories, and to them alone, attaches all the guilt of the non-transaction of the business of the country which has characterised the five months of the Victoria Parliament which have already elapsed. They have interposed insurmountable obstacles to the introduction of new measures of great national im portance, and to the progress of those which have been for some time before th'e House. They have got up party motions for the express purpose of impeding the public business, in order that they might turn the fact of the public business being so im peded into a weapon against Ministers. They had soothed themselves with the grateful hope, that seeing the business of the country was retarded, the nation would, without inquiry, and without thought as to who the actual parties were on whom the responsibility of the delay rests, at once throw the blame on Ministers, and get up a demon stration of public opinion against them which would at once scatter the Administration to the winds of Heaven. In this the Tories have reckoned without their host. The country is not only too quick in its perceptions as to the conduct of parties, but has had too much experience of the desperate and discreditable expedients to which the present Opposition to Government are capable of resorting, to be so easily deceived as the adverse faction had assumed they would. The nation know that all the obstruction to useful le gislation proceeds from the Opposition ; and that Ministers bave shown every disposition to get through the business which the exigencies of the country so urgently require. And thus discriminatin g between the innocent and guilty, the country is not, and never could be, so unjust as to , blame Ministers for the offences of others. This is the grand secret why no whisper of reproach is raised by the people against Lord Melbourne and his colleagues, not withstanding the deplorably backward state in which the public business now is. And thus the Conservatives may rest'assured matters will continue to the end. So long as they pursue their present factious course, so long will Ministers be absolved from all blame. Nay, more : the nation will hold the Tories themselves responsible for the non-transaction of the public business, and for all the con sequences which may ensue. They may, if they please, interpose obstacle after obstacle to the most beneficial and necessary measures which Ministers may bring forwrrd, and they may have the miserable satisfaction for a time of think ing that they have been successful ; but their joy will be of temporary duration : their factious success will eventu ally be converted, through the indignant expression of public opinion, into one of the most signal defeats which, as a party, they ever sustained.—Morning Advertiser. The chief purpose which the Coronation, shorn of its ac customed splendours, seems intended toserve, is the creation of a large number of mushroom Peers, to strengthen the in fluence of Ministers in the Upper House, if not to break down its independence altogether. We need not say from what a quantity of iniquitous and blundering legislation the country has been saved of late years by the independent and vigilant control which the Lords have exercised over the Legislative measures of an accommodating majority in the Lower House. We do not want the authority of Lord Brougham for the fact that, " If it were not for the intel ligent supervision exercised by the Lords over the Bills brought up to them from the other House, the Commons would cover themselves with endless blundering and absur dities ;" still Lord Brougham did volunteer such an opi nion, and, though his opinions upon any given subject ate in general worth very little, yet in this instance his testimony to the superior judgment and intelligence of the Patrician branch of the Legislature may be worth somethir ' e for two reasons —one, that the House of Lords has made him look much smaller in the eyes of the public than the House of •Commons ever did—the other, that we have not heard of his having retracted that declaration, like hundreds of opi nions which he has from time to time adopted and abandoned. There was one instance, indeed, in which it would have been well for the character of the House of Lords, and the interests of the country, if that superior judgment and vigilance had been exercised with the same determination as in many other cases. We allude to Lord Brougham's bastile law, which has built up an appalling system of white slavery upon a gross violation of the Constitution. But let that pass at present. England and the Whigs, and that portion of the Tories who exhibit a " wonderful unanimity" with Whigs and Radicals in the oppression of the poor, shall yet hear enough of it. The c msequences are only beginning to be seen in the growing discontent of the labouring classes, and the alienation of the respect and affections of the poor from the rich, whose property there by loses its chief security. We do not pretend to know what number of Peers the Ministers, who hold office by Conservative suffrance, intend. to make. An evening Con temporary says there will be 26 English and Irish, and under takes to give the names of several of them, among whom figures that proound and most successful financier Mr. Spring Rice. Well his elevation to the Peerage may be considered as a deliverance to the Exchequer, though, we dare say, the sagacity of the Whig Ministers will not fail to discover talents to fill his place equally capable of lopping the too abundant tree of " national prosperity," and bringing down the revenue by millions. On this subject, too, the for bearance of the Conservatives of the House of Commons is truly great. They see the whole system of public finance tumbling into ruin, and they look upon the matter with the most stoical indifference. Perhaps when the ruin is completed they will step in to prevent it. In that case they will clearly be entitled to inscribe their names, as those of the saviours of their country, on a monument of bras. Among the names given we observe the rejected of %Vest Norfolk, the rejected of North Wiltshire, the rejected of Westminster, and Several others who are to be consoled for popular rejection by aristocratic adoption. The House of Lords will duly appreciate the compliment. Its cha racter will be greatly elevated by an influx of so many authors of " rejected addresses." But what is truly comi cal is, that the men who seek the honours of the aristocracy are almost all men who have been as prone to rail at the House of Lords as Sir J. Campbell was before, as Mr. Godson said, he " bartered for a petticoat peerage his professional right to preferment". The men who were ready, two or three I years ago, to assist O'Connell in pulling down the House of Lords, are now as eager to be thrust by the Ministerial " pitchfork" into a seat in that House, as if they had im bibed aristocratic sentiments with the milk of their infancy. It has been said that it is easier to make Peers than gen tlemen ; whether that a be so or not, it is certainly easier to distribute coronets than to confer the dignity which will make them be respected. If O'Connell could spare his " tail" fr m the Lower House, we suppose it would also undergo the process of aril! ocratie manufacture. In that case we should have indeed a peerless batch of Peers I In the meantime the splendours of the monarchy are curtailed. The Throne is shorne of the dignity and lustre which are associated with proud historical recollections of England's ancient glory. 11 7 1)e economy cannot afford a Royal ban. quet to the Sovereign on the day of sealing the great com pact with the people in the noble hall, which is almost coeval with the Monarchy ; while the same Whig econr my pro poses to send a mushroom Earl with mock autocratic power to the snowy deserts of Canada, with more than oriental pomp and circumstance ! But what, it may be asked, does the British Monarchy want with those time-honoured splendours with which it was clothed when the nation was respected through the world, and the people, as compared with the days of Whig economy, were comfortable, loyal, and contented? Have not the Whigs put the Monarchy almost altogether in commission Y and is it net necessary that the parsimony of the Queen's coronation should make some amends for the prodigality of their wasteful patro nage ? A coronation on a scale of expence suitable to the grandeur of the British throne never made the English people one farthin the poorer: The stimulus given to the trade of the metropolis by a truly national spectacle of this sort has always wore than repaid the outlay. Artists, shopkeepers, tradesmen, and artisens, are empl,oyed in va rious ways in fureishing all the requisites of the ceremony. A large circul ition of mortey is promoted, and the fame of a truly splendid coronation attracts not only people fro all parts of the country who can aff,rcl the expense, bu great numbers of foreigners. And then, when we thin that it i 3 a maiden Queen whose hereditary claims upo , public honours—the freest and the fullest that a generou nation could bestow—are to be postponed to the Russionise Lord Durham's pompous pretensions, weconfessit is enoug to make us think more meanly of our Ministers than ever The- virgin Queen is to be denied "a champion," and the ac customed hospitalities of Westminster Hall are to be dis carded, in order that the Canadian autocrat may have a retinue and a table on a scale of eastern extrava gance. Well might Burke exclaim, " The age of chivalry is past." May we be allowed to suggest an improvement upon this sort of economy to Ministers ? W ou ld i t not bring something into the Exchequer if a Government that seems determined to make war on all national feelings, and to obliterate, if possible, all traces of national glory, were to employ the pickaxes and mattocks of their vandal archi tects to level Westminster Hall, and sell the materials for what they may bring? Cheap Law Courts can very easily be had for the administration of the cheap law which is speedily to be dispensed over the country, when the fifteen Judges, having nothing to do, may be put upon the reduced establishment. By getting rid of all old institutions and monuments of ancestral glory, we shall become at lenth as new a country as Canada, or even as Van Diemen's Land ; as to the term " Old England," it will of course fall to most cosmopolitish discredit and philosophical con pt. It was used familiarly by the men who conquered Cressy and at Agincourt, who achieved the trophies of lenheirn and of Waterloo, who smote the " invincible mada," and directed the thunders of victory at the Nile d Trafalgar ; but these are additional reasons why our nti-national Ministers should banish a phrase which calls nd p awkward recollections. —Horning Herald. We borrow a paragraph from the Hampshire Telegraph, he Government paper published at Portsmouth, from which it appears that the Earl of Durham already, previ ous to his embarkation, or that of any individual of his suite, regards her Majesty's ship of the line which has been appropriated to his conveyance and that of his enor -1 mous train of sycophants and dependents across the Atlantic, as if she were his own private property, and her Captain and Officers his hired servants. Lord Durham has not been at St. Petersburgh for nothing. His Lord ship has evidently imbibed in that congenial region, or strengthened rather, for there is reason enough to believe that the disposition was implanted by nature, the manners and feelings of a Bashaw. Who but Lord Durham would have thought it within his competency to interdict to the Captain and Officers of one of her Majesty's ships the ordinary privilege and gratification of showing to their friends and follow-subjects the interior of the vessel in which they are about to sail to another quarter of the globe ? But the indecency of this order in reference to the gallant officers to whom it must have been addressed, and whose conduct it restrains and fetters in a manner the most arbitrary and capricious, is not the point on which the public is chiefly interested. Why, it must naturally occur to every man to ask, all this mystery ? Why are the saloons and state cabins of the Hastings to be veiled from the inspection of all mortal eyes other than those of persons in the immediate employment of Government, and ex pressly engaged in ministering to the pride and luxury of the imperious —we had nearly said the Imperial—pas senger ? Is it that Lord Durham thinks the decorations Ivhich this fine vessel has received on his account not altogether so recherche and magnificent as they ought to be, considering the superlative dignity of her in tended freight ? Or, however inadequate they may be 1 1 1114: SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, APRIL 16, 183 S. in his own estimation to the exalted and unappre ciable value of the living cargo the Hastings byto convey,pr ieshenhsi s i 0 n Lords hipthat, if t b o e r i m l e l e a n t e b d y , n a e n s y •e i 5 r t p h o a e r il l t e:s o u s n t , of the British public, and truly described, as in that case they might probably be, to the community at large, these decorations might perhaps be regarded as another instance of that prodigal and reckless waste of the public money, to which in so many instances his Lordship's mis sion has given rise ? These feelings are, we suspect, com bined in the morose mandate of the Canadian Dictator, that the accommodation provided for him shall be impene trably shrouded from public view. His Lordship is pain fully and petulantly conscious that, in this particular at least, there exists no sympathy between himself and the people of England. The imaginative splendour of Orien tal romance would be inadequate to the Noble Lord's estimate of his own personal dignity and importance ; while, perhaps, with the exception of his Lordship, there is not a man in the three kingdoms, who would not pronounce that the ordinary every-day condition of a British ship of the line does not present as much of becoming magnificence, and of convenient accommoda tion, as his Lordship had any right to claim or to expect, whether on account of his personal value, his social rank, or his official station and employment? Whatever may have been the predorriinant motive in the mind of the Noble Lord it is at least certain that the order ascribed to him by the Government journal at Portsmouth is an order which could not by possibility have emanated from any man having the least respect for, or the slightest sympathy with, the British public. Tho great bulk of our countrymen hate moroseness, and mystery, and aristocratic pride. They have sense enough to know that the man who displays those qualities, and who at the same time makes profession of democratic principles, is of necessity a hypocrite—that he affects a peculiar regard for the rights, interests, and feelings of the masses of the people only because he has so much vanity as to think himself qualified - to convert the masses of the people into the blind tools of his ambition. Lord Durham, it is evident, hai no idea of the manner in which he might best secure to himself a favourable recep tion in Canada. His Lordship thinks,_ perhaps, that his own all-sufficient merits and dignity render any considera tion of this nature altogether superfluous.—Morning Post. Never perhaps since the world began was there such a set of discontented people as the Tories. Nothing can sa tisfy them : they are like the man in the old story that went into a wood to hang himself, and could not for the life of him find a single tree that would answer his purpose. They arc resolved not to be pleased : there are abundant reasons for sefisfaction, but though " reasons are as plenty as black berries" they will have none of them. " They will not, for they will not," and that is all they can say. " There is a soul of goodness in things evil," observes a great authority, but they cannot find out even this soul. They are not only political immaterialists, but they deny the very existence of the soul. Of evil, they tell us, they discover an amaz ing superfluity, but they are. unable to find one point of con solation. We mistake : there is one point of consola tion—one little circumstance that does afford them satis faction—the state of the revenue. They are delighted to observe that the accounts, both of the whole s ear and of the last quarter, are somewhat unfavourable, and show a decrease in the income of the country. But then, again, their joy is " dashed with an abatement of grief," for instead of the prospect for the future being melancholy and gloomy, it is exhilarating and cheerful. There is good ground for, believin g t h at t h e commerc i a l crisis is past, that the difficulty has been got over, and that the returns for the next quarter may be gratifying. There fore the Tories cannot derive much comfort even froth the temporary inconvenience that may have been occasioned by the defalcation of the revenue, especially since the incon venience was by so much the less, as Ministers, antici pating such a state of things, had been prudent enough to take precautions against it. H owever , t h e T or i es per tinaciously insist that every thing is wrong,—that distress and disaster hang over the kingdom ; and prosperous and fortunate as the present condition of the nation may seem to others, the fact is, that nothing can be more alarming, nothing better calculated to produce dread and despondency. They will not believe the evidence of their own senses, if it do not suit their purpose ; just as the foolish logician in the farce endeayoured to argue people out of their consietion that the sun was shining, because he had taken it into his head to dispute it. The Tories, indeed, go one step farther, for they not only deny that the sun is shining, but they contend that it h as no r i g h t t o shine, unless they giVe it leave. " The sun itself dare not to shine, If we do say it nay." Certainly, nobody will pretend that they would not have the power, and would not carry their power let° effect, of extinguishing the nAticnal sunshine, ii once they could but contrive to get into office again. So fur, therefore, they are right, but just at present we do not think that the people are disposed to allow them to try the experiment of eclipsing what the Whigs have accomplished. We own we cannot wonder at the st ite of mind in which the Tory party now find themselves. They have a right to be most tho roughly out of humour with everything, for everything has turned cut to their utter discomfiture and disappointment. Only leek back to the leading events of less than a ye :r. First, William " the true and just," as the Times truly and justly calls him, died, and Victoria the young and hopeful succeeded to the throne. So much had her Majesty and her royal parent kept themselves aloof from politics and parties that the Tories in the outset had hopes that she might take them into favour to the exclusion of a Liberal Ministry. These hopes were at once destroyed by the declaration by the Queen of entire confidence in Lord Melbourne and his colleagues. Then followed vo lumes of abuse poured out through the Times against the Duchess of Kent, because she had educated her illustrious daughter in tie belief that the great object of Government lavas the welfare of the whole nation, and not the aggran disement of an exclusive party hostile to that welfare. The administration of the Whigs being thus founded on the good op;nion of the Sovereign, and upon the good wishes < f the people, what were the unhappy Tories to do to defeat its measures? A dissolution of Parliament being inesi table, they brought all their arts of division, delusion, in timidation, corruption, and bribery to bear on the elections ; but here again they failed, and a majority decidedly favour chic to the Liberal interest was returned. As it was soon found that nothing could be done in Parliament by the Opposition, as far as related to the domestic state of Great Britain and Ireland, the rebellion in Canada seemed to many of the most rabid of the Tories quite a godsend ; and here they trusted that Ministers, if not disconcerted, might be embarrassed. But the measures proposed in the first instance to suppress the 'revolt, and then to prevent the recurrence of any similar evil in future by a searching inquiry into all real grievances, and an honest determination to redress them, were such that the leaders of the Opposi tion could not refuse concurrence in them, and the Earl of Durham will now soon be wafted across the Atlantic, fully empowered by the Queen and the Legislature, as the great pacificator of our North American Colonies, to examine into the whole system of government, and to recommend'and apply such remedies as may be effec tual and satisfactory. The pitiful efforts to lessen the beneficial consequences of his Lordship's mission, and to pass a vote of censure upon Ministers for pursuing a course which, a month or six weeks before, nobody had ventured to find fault with, merited and received the negative of the House of Commons, and the contempt of the great body of the nation. The attacks upon the administration of Lord Mulgrave in Ireland, met with a similar result, and the No ble Viceroy can well endure'the hatred of all Orangemen for reducing that fertile island to a happy state of obedience and tranquillity. Every day, therefore, we perceive fresh proofs of the dissatisfaction of the Tories, not merely because Lord Mulgrave continues at the head of affairs in Ireland, but because his beneficial administra tion has rendered it impossible that the sister kingdom should ever hereafter be governed upon other princi ples than those of equality and justice to all parties. The Tories, therefore, owe his Lordship a grudge not only for the present but for the future. " For this and all we hate the©" Lea the Tories, then, turn which way they will they behold nothing that is not calculated to pro duce in their minds bitter vexation and regret. Abroad they see peace preserved, and the national character and superiority maintained without any ostentation of power which might be offensive to foreign States. They see our commerce thriving, our manufactures flourishing, our agri culture prosperous, and, our revenues, though temporarily depressed, gradually improving. They see Great Britain happy, Ireland peaceful,:and such of our colonies as were disturbed returning to order and obedience. How, then, can the Tories be satisfied ? What chance can they have of again coming into office ? and hence, of course their despondency, if not their despair. What else could satisfy them ? While they held the reins of Government they treated the people, in the language of old Burton, " as so many asses only fit to bear burdens ;" but the asses have freed themselves, have thrown off their load, and are deter mined not to be " Re-caught, re-bound, re-burdened, and re-basted." To deprive the Tories of their grief at their present disas trous state, and worse prospects, would be to deprivge John, of their last consolation. When Constance, in Kin is desired not to mourn for the loss of Prince Arthur, she remonstrates against this cruelty, exclaiming—. ~ Grief fills the room up of my absent child ;" and so the Tories may very naturally tell us not to take from them that which alone makes their present condition endurable :.-..." Grief fills the room up of our absent" places : " let us at least have the melancholy satisfaction of finding fault." Neither the present Government, nor any other Government, unless constituted of Tory mate rials, could prevent their finding fault ; and as in these times (witness the Earl of Mulgrave) it is strong testimony of desert, we should be sorry on our part to do anything which could put the Tories in a situation to forego this gratification. The blame they have bestowed upon Minis ters for intending to spend only, perhaps, 25,0001., instead of 230,0001, upon the coronation, certainly shows that they are hard driven for grounds of complaint. They have, however, complained, and, if it had any doubt before, the nation will no longer have the slightest hesitation in approving, with a deficient revenue, of this exercise of economy. —Morning Chronicle. ELECTION COMMITTEES. (SATURDAY.) (From our Second Edition of Saturday.) HULL. William Johnson, joiner, Gibson-street, was objected to on the ground of having► been paid for his services in the band of Sir W. Jamcs and Mr. Wilberforce. The evidence was nearly the same as in the preceding cases. Mr. Hildyard, in support of the vote, cited a decision in the Monmouth case, where the rote of a person named John Partridge was held to be good, although the voter had been paid for his services in the band of Mr. Hall. Mr. Austin could see no difference between the employment of flagmen and musicians, and yet the former were expressly disqualified by the Act. The Committee struck off the vote. Wm. Freebody was next objected to. Geo. Foster deposed that Freebody is the Clerk of St. James's Church, Hull ; that a fortnight or three weeks after the election he told him he had got a sovereign for his services as poll clerk. He also said witness was a d—d fool for not voting for the Blues, for they always paid. The Committee struck off the vote. _ At three o'clock the — Committee adjourned. The number of votes struck from the poll of the sitting Member is 62, leaving Mr. Hutt in a majority of 44 over Mr. Wilberforce, and Mr. Wood in a minority of 22. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. NEW COURT. (From our Second and Third Editions of Saturday.) TRIAL OF THOMAS WILLIAMS, ESQ., YOR FORGERY (FIFTH DAY). Sir WILLIAM FoLLETT then proceeded to address himself to the evidence given by Mr. Barton Penton, and the other witnesses for the prosecution, and appealed to the jury whether it had not fully borne out the charge in the indictment. He repelled indignantly the imputations which had been thrown out against the characters of those gentlemen, and put it to them whether there was the slightest ground for impeaching their testimony. He impressed on them the evidence given by the engravers, which he said went clearly to establish that the inference which naturally suggested itself that the pencil marks to which the signature of the deceased had been <Axed were instructions for the disposition of the' property therein specified was a correct one. It was said what neces sity was there fur forging all these documents ? (nine in num ber). If the case were an honest one, it was true there would be no necessity for it ; but as it was, the necessity was obvious. He then called their attention to the evidence of Ann Williams and Ellen Evans, and contended that instead of supporting the case of the prisoner it bore strongly against him. They had seen the testator affix his signature to certain documents. It was not denied that he had so affixed it, but the suggestion by the prosecution was, that the papers so signed were not his last will and testament, but related merely to the property) that of Hurlock), with respect to which the deed of partition was executed. To confirm this, they had the map, plans, and specification of the property in pencil, which the engravers hsd sworn, had been placed there prior to the filling up the body of the instrument with ink, and they had the expression—the re markable expression of the testator, deposed to both by Anne Williams and Ellen Evans, as having been uttered by him on signing the documents, " That Hurlock gave a great deal of trouble." After going through the evidence, in detail, and commenting on what he termed the improbability of the case set up by the prisoner, the Learned Gentleman concluded by apologising to them for the length cf time which he had occupied. He had endeavoured to confine himself strictly to the evidence, for it was upon that alone they would have to decide, and he hoped they would discard every other consideration from their minds. They had an onerous and painful duty to discharge, but whatever the result would be, he was satisfied that no one could complain that the case had not been honestly and fairly tried. Mr. Baron PARKE commenced summing tip the evidence at three o'clock. After complimenting the jury on the patient attention which they had given the case, he said that he should require at their hands a still further extension of it. They should not be swayed by the appeal made to them by the Learned Counsel on either side, further than was warranted by the evidence. It was the duty, on the one hand, cf the pro secutor to place the guilt of the prisoner beyond all doubt ; and, on the other, if they saw clearly through all the difficul ties of the case, and were satisfied he had committed the crime imputed to him, it was their duty, painful though it might be, without fear of the consequences which would re sult from it, to find a verdict against him. The Jury retired for upwards of half an hour, and returned into Court at half-past six with a Verdict of NOT GUILTY. The announcement was received with loud cheers and clap. ping of hands by ade ely crowded Court. The two females alleged to have been implicated in the transaction were then arraigned, but no evidence having been offered, a verdict of acquittal was taken. The Court was immensely full, and Immediately on the ver dict being !pronounced, hundreds of respectably-dressed per sons pressed towards the dock in order to shake hands with the prisoner. Similar enthusiasm was exhibited on the pri Boner being discharged and reaching the street, where he was met by a crowd of persons who cheered bins loudly. Garrinione, Walls, and Shaw,' three men who stand charged with having committed wilful and corrupt perjury in giving their evidence before the Newcastle-under-Lyme elec tion Committee, were, during the absence of the jury in the last case, put to the bar and arraigned on five indictment., charging them with conspiracy and perjury. The prisoners severally pleaded " Not Guilty," and tra versed the trial of their case until next Session. The Court then adjourned to Monday, May 14. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. • G UILD HA LL. On Saturday one of the Directors of the London Parcels Delivery Company, attended to answer the complaint of Mr. Mr. Lewin, a bootmaker, in Mason's-alley, Coleman-street. Mr. Lewin sent a boot, which had been returned to him to ease the toe, by one of the Company's receiving-houses to a customer in the Edgware-road on the 16th of January. Learning it had not reached its destination he complained at the receiving -house, and, after waiting a few days that inquiry might be made, he was referred to the Directors at the Picket Street depot. The Director said the parcel appeared to have been stolen, and the difficulty that had arisen in adjusting the matter was, that the shoemaker insisted on the Company paving for the pair of boots, instead of being content with payment for a boot to match, as only ono had been lost. The shoemaker had been obliged to make his customer a new pair, and the odd boot would be unsaleable till he met with a one-leved gentleman. Sir PETER asked why he could not make a hoot to match the one he had ? The shoemaker said the bootswere of a peculiar make, at 325. the pair, such as were rarely asked for. Sir PETER asked if the Company had had lost any other parcel ? The Director said they had, and it was not surprising, as they carried 2,000 parcels a day. Sir PETER said this was a case in which he bad no power to adjudicate, but he hoped be should prevent them going to law. The shoemaker must forego his profits on the pair of boots, and the Company should pay him about 255. for them. Eventually, both parties agreed to this suggestion, and 255. Were paid. BOW-STREET. William Cleal, 27, Eagle.strcet, Red Lion-square, was charged on Saturday under the following circumstances. Har riet Stockwell, of 9, Grafton -street, East, Tottenham- court road. Her brother is a toropenny-post letter-carrier, and has told her that a person representing himself to be a letter carrier was going about delivering letters stamped in imita tion of those passing through the post-office, and obtaining sums of money, which he stated to be postage. On Thurs day evening, about twenty minutes before nine o'clock, she beard a knock at the door, and on going to see who was there, the prisoner delivered a letter to her saying, " Mr. Stockwell —twopence." She immediately went to her brother, who was then in the house, and told him that the " sham postman" was at the door. Her brother looked at the letter, and then wont out to him, and took him into custody.—The case was re manded for a week. THAMES-OFFICE. THE MURDER IN:THE ISLE OF Doos.--On Saturday Richard Tidy, a mud-bargeman, was brought before Mr. BALLANTINE and Mr. GREENWOOD, charged with being concerned in the murder of Duncan Crawford, an engine -smith, on the Isle of Dogs, on Sunday, the 9th of April, 1837. After hearing evilence Mr. Ballantine remanded the prisoner to Clerken well gaol. HAT TON- GARDEN. Thomas Milton, the driver of a cabriolet, was placed at the bar before Mr. ROGERS, charged by Thomas Newcharffe, a Yorkshireman, with having stolen 103. The prosecutor, in a broad Yorkshire dialect, stated that he resided in Milton- street, St. Luke's, and on Monday last he hired the prisoner's cab to drive him about town, for amusement loike, and being quite civil he gave him some dinner and plenty to drink, until he spent th e w h o l e of hi s money, and he then gave him his watch, chain, and seals, to pledge for a sove reign, when he brought back a sovereign, and he ultimately dis covered that he had pledged it for 30s. Mr. ROGERS—How did you ascertain that he bad pledged it for 30s. ? Prosecutor (vacantly)—Whoy, I was withoot money, and I axed 'un to go and pledge my watch for a sove reign, and I gave him the watch : when he cum back he handed I the sovereign, and said as I had been drinking-loike I ought to take care o' the ticket, and keep it in my fob, and so he put it in, and on looking at it arter I foond it was pledged for 30s. Mr. RoGEßs—Pray what countryman are you ? Prose cutor—l bee cum fra York.—(Laughter.) Mr. ROGERS (who joined in the laugh) thought that he could not have come far north to have been so easily bit, and asked him what he was ?--Prosecutor—l be a shoemaker. Mr. ROGERS—Why did you suffer him to put the duplicate in your fob? Prosecutor —Why, zur, I drank so much beer, d'ye see, that I couldn't do it my son, and I didn't think he'd cheat me. The prisoner declared that he gave him the 305., and he told him to get that sum on the watch. Mr. ROGERS.— : You may think yourself very cunning, but unless you give the 10s. to the prosecutor I shall remand you for stealing the money. The prisoner was locked up, but he eventually agreed to pay the 10s., when he was discharged. Harriet Brown, the owner of a retail beer-shop, was sum moned, charged with having knowingly harboured a police constable in her house. The defendant pleaded guilty, and she was convicted in the penalty of 20s. and costs. The Magistrates informed her that under the Metropolitan Police Act, in default of payment she was subject to two months' imprisonment in the Hotise of Correction. MARYLEBONE. On Thursday Mr. John Cunningham, pipe -maker, of Port land -town, appeared to answer the charge of stealing a sly kiss from the lips of Alice Turner, the pretty wife of a young tonsor residing in the same town. " Please your Worship," said the fair complainant, " on Friday last I was walking through Kilburn towards home, when the defendant overtook me with his horse and cart, when, knowing him as a neighbour, and feeling rather fa tigued, I was induced to accept the offer of a ride towards home, and I got into the vehicle. We proceeded on till we came to a secluded part of St. John's Wood-road, when, avail ing himself of the opportunity, he gave me such a kiss as I shall never forget." Defendant—But I forget all about it though. Mr. RAWLINSON—Hovv's that ? Defendant—Why the fact is, my business lies so much among publicans that I am obliged to wet my " pipes" so often— Mr. RawussoN—Do you mean to say that you were in toxicated then ? Defendent--Why I must have been a little bit " agreeably confused" not to recollect anything about the stair. Mr. RAWLINSON--YOU should not get so drunk as not to know whether you are kissing your neighbour's wife or not. Defendant —Drink is a vc ry insinuating thing, Sir. Complainant —And you're a very insinuating man, because I had no veil on, to take such a barefaced liberty. Mr. RawmvsoN—Why did you not push him away ? Com plainant—lt was impossible ;he was as quick as lightning. It was a word and a kiss, and the kiss came first; but I told my husband all about it when I got home. Defendant—And that made all the disagreeable rumpus. You should not kiss and tell. After some further colloquy, the matter was disposed of by the defendant being ordered to pay the costs of the war rant, and enter into his own recognizance to keep the peace. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. (From the Hampshire Telegraph.) PORTSMOUTH, APRIL 14.—The Apollo troop ship, A. Karley, Esq. master, went out of harbour on Monday, with 650 of the Grenadier Guards, and proceeded at once for Ca n ada, without anchoring at Spithead ; she was followed on Tuesday, by the Inconstant frigate, Captain Pring, with the remainder of that fine body of men. The Edinburgh, 74, Captain Henderson, arrived on Sunday from the Lisbon station, having left the Tagus on the 24th March, when there were lying there the Donegal, Trinculo, Scylla, and a French GO gun frigate. Affairs were tranquil at the time of her departure. The Edinburgh has since landed her louer deck guns, and yesterday and to-day took on board the second and'third division of the second battalion of Coldstream Guards ; the first division having embarked on board the Athol troop ship, Mr. Bellamy, master, on Thurs day. The Athol on her way to Quebec, was towed,. from Spithead this morning by the Tartarus steamer, as far as off Dunnoqe. The Edinburgh will follow at twelve o'clock to-morrow. • The Hastings, 74, Captain Loch, arrived yesterday, to take on board the Earl of Durham, her Majesty's High Com missioner for the settlement of the Canadian disputes. His Lordship's stock was embarked to-day, with the exception of the live portion of it, which will be sent off on the eve of his embarkation, which is expected to be about Thursday next. We observe his Lordship is engaged to dine with the Lord Mayor on Easter Monday. The fine band of the 71st Regi ment was landed here on Wednesday, by an Irish steamer, from Cork, to embark on board the Hastings, for the use of the Earl of Durham. Major-General Sir James Macdonnell, who will command the brigade of Guards in Canada, has em. barked on board the Hastings. The Lily, 16, Commander Reeve, is ordered to convey dis patches to Rio de Janeiro, and from thence proceed to the Cape of Good Hope ; she will sail about Wednesday. The Hercules, 74, was spoken with, all well, on the 18th ult., in long. 43. 30., with detachments on board for Canada. . The Tartarus steamer proceeded on Wednesday to the West Indies. Captain P. bouglas, who is to hoist a broad pennant at Jamaica, on board the Magnificent, took passage in her. The Stakesby (transport) arrived yesterday from Deptford, and came into harbour to embark fourteen horses for Lord Durham, and ten belonging to officers of the Guards. The Pluto, steam-vessel, arrived yesterday from Weymouth. The Minden, with the 73d Regiment on board for Quebec, arrived at Madeira from Gibraltar March 15. The Charybdis, 3 guns, commanded by the Hon. Lieut. Gore, arrived yesterday from Chatham, ou her way to the West Indies. The Herald, 28, and Actaeon, 26, are ready for commis sioning at this port. The French frigate Terpsichore, of 60 guns, after having been detained at Cork for eight weeks in rendering her toler ably fit for sea, left on Friday last, the 6th, for Brest, where she arrived the following day. The Captain of her enter tamed all the civil and military authorities with a splendid rig'eunee the day previous to his departure; and, in drinking the Queen of England's health, expressed his thanks for the public and private assistance that had been rendered his dis tressed ship. APPOINTMENTS.—Captain C. J. Austen, to the Bellerophon, vice Captain S. Jackson, C. 8., appointed Superintendent of Pembroke Dock-yard ; Commander Parlby to the Coast Guard Service at Sunderland; Lieutenant Woodford .1. Wil liams, Messrs. Belleston, Second Master Ilemer, Clerk-in charge, and Cunningham, Assistant-Surgeon, to the Terma gant ; Mr. G. Moyle, Mate, from the Eicellent to the Has tings; Mr. Cmsar Powell, Mate, from the. Excellent to the Malabar; Messrs. Rodger and Caldwell, Assistant-Surgeons, frarn the Britannia and the Cornwallis ; Lieutenant Montague Thomas, (acting), to the Carrots steamer, vice Owen, de ceased ; Lieutenant J. A. A. Riddell, from the Madagascar to the Seringapatam; Lieutenant R. Perceval to command the Badger, vice Night; Lieutenant G. T. Smyth, to com mand the Adelaide, vice Hire ; Mr. William Bayne, As sistant- Surgeon, of the Madagascar, to the Pickle, vice James Stiell, to Bermuda Hospital; Mr. Charles Williams, Clerk of the Nimrod, to act as Purser of her, vice Mr. Ro bot t Simmonds, invalided; Mr. William Weaver, Clerk to Howe ; Mr. J. Brooman, Clerk to the Britomart ; Mr. Lloyd, College Volunteer, to the Melville ; Mr. C. Ada.n (son of Sir C. Adam,) Volunteeer First Class, to the Has tings; Mr. Sadler, Clerk, to the Andromache; Mr. H. F. W. Ingram, Midshipman (late of the Actaeon,) to the Talbot ; Mr. Francis Goodwin, supernumerary carpenter, from the Victory, to be additional carpenter of the Redwing steam packet at Holyhead, for the service of the Packet Establish ment ; Mr. Richard Pol)blank, supernumerary carpenter, to be carpenter of the Modeste. The following retired Corn .nanders of the second class are appointed to the first class, on Ba. 6d. per diem :—T. Solway, W. Jameson, John Leach, G Fisher, J. B. Mant, Edward Starley, D. Chambert, A. G. Stirling, and Wm.rHeritag-e. Retired Commander James Brockman, to the out-pension of Greenwich Hospital, vice Lieut. Wheatley, deceased. The following , gentlemen passel for Lieutenants at the Naval College, on Tuesday:—Messrs. Spencer Hicks Pick ard, Edw. E. Morgan, and W. Cashman (no ship), Henry W. Toole (Britannia), W. H. Payne Russell, and Sir God frey Webster, Bart. (Asia). (From the Devonport independent.) PLYMOUTH, Aram 14.—The Malabar, 74, Captain Edw. Harvey, sailed on Monday Cork, where she will embark 650 soldiers of the 71st regiment, and convey them to Quebec. On Thursday morning, the Barossa, hired transport, also pro ceeded to Cork, to take the remainder of the 71st regiment, with other troops intended for Canada. The brig Nautilus, 10, Lieutenant Beaufoy, arrived here yesterday morning (Friday), from Portsmouth, on her way to to the Coast of Africa. The packet Ranger, Lieutenant Turner, will be paid off Thursday next. The Resistance, 46, having been repaired, was taken out of dock on Wednesday. The packet Lyra, Lieutenant Ladd, was warped alongside the sheerhulk on Wednesday, to have her masts taken out and examined. The Tortoise lighter, was taken on the Graving Slip on Wednesday, to hare her copper cleaned and repaired. The Devon lighter, having on board Mr. Walker, Assistant Master Attendant, with a party of riggers and seamen from the San Josef, sailed on Sunday for Pembroke, to bring the Penguin to this port. The Duck, lighter, sailed on Tuesday, with stores, for Portsmouth. The S wail, tender, was taken on the graving slip, on Tuesday, to have her copper cleaned and repaired. The brig Jaseur, having been repaired, was taken out of dock on Thursday ; and tier Majesty's packet Lyra, Lieute nant Ladd, was taken into dock the same tide, to be examined. The Inconstant, 36, Captain D. Pring, and the Apollo, troop-ship, Mr. A. Karley, 'Master-Commanding, sailed on Tuesday morning from Portsmouth. Both ships passed this port about 9 o'clock on Thursday morning on their way to Quebec, having on board the 2d battalion of the Grenadier Guards. The Russell, 74, Captain Sir Henry W. Dillon, K. C. H., is ordered to proceed from the Mediterranean to this port, where she will',take out her lower deck guns in order to embark for Canada. -- The Talavera, 74, Capt. Mends, was at Gibraltar on the 28th ; she had embarked the 73d regiment and would sail for Halifax about the 2d inst. , We stated last week that Sir Pultensy Malcolm was conva lescent, but we regret to hear that he has suffered a relapse, and that this distinguished officer is now at his residence in town, in a very dangerous state of health, his recovery being extremely doubtful. Sir William Parker is also at present suffering from illness. According to an Order in Council of the 21st of March last, the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty have in creased the pay of Naval Instructors, and Schoolmasters, from the rate of 41. 14s. per month, to 61. 14s. The increased rate of payment to commence from the above date. The following ships, on foreign stations, arc ordered home, their time of service having expired, and they may be daily expected :—Buzzard, 10, Coast of Africa; Carron, steam vessel, West Indies ; Childers, 16, Coast of Africa ; Cur lew, 10, Coast of Africa ; Dublin, 50, South America ; Portland, 52, Mediterranean ; Racer, 16, and Rainbow, 28, from the \Vest Indies ; Raleigh, 18, Ratt:esnake, 28, Win chester, 52, Wolf, 18, and Zebra, 16, from the past Indies ; Rover, 1.8, South America ; Thalia, 46, Cape of Good Hope. The Barham, .50, Captain A. L. Corry, arrived at Mar— seilles March 28, from Malta. The Pearl, 20, Commander the Right Hon. Lord Clarence Paget, arrived at Norfolk, United States, 7th March, from Bermuda. Lord C. Paget proceeded to Washington express, bearing despatches for the British Minister. The Scorpion, 10, Lieutenant Ga)ton, Afier endeavouring. to get to the W e st war d f rom M a lt a , e v er Bit: ce the 15th of February, was struck by lightning at some dista.lce from the South-end of the Island of Sardinia, on the 27th of the same month, and returned to Malta on the 11th of Marci:. Be r maintop mast was split, and considerable damage'clone to Per mainmast. No lives were lost, but the Master and two ~ or hree of th e men were stunne d an d b urnt b y t h e e l ectr i c fluid. The Scorpion remained at Malta on the 14th ult. The Pique, from Cork and Bermuda, arrived at Halifax os the sth ult., with a part of the 93d regiment, under the com— mand of Colonel Macgregor. She suffered much during the• pissage, and is said to have been near foundering several times. The troops were in fine health, and were disembarked en the 6th. The Andromache, 28, Captain R. L Baynes, is fast getting o 3 with at Sheerness. On Tuesday, a little after dark, th e son of Mr. Stoyles, boatswain of the ship, fell overboard from the main deck of the Shannon hulk, out of one of the ports, and, in all probability, would have been drowned but for th e prompt assistance of Mr. George Peacock, Master of the' A ll , dromache, who im me di a t e l y j umpe d over b oar d , and reseed him, though there was a strong ebb tide running. FALSE SANCTITY. On Wednesday Mr. Plumptre, who has succeeded to Sir Andrew Agnew in the humane experiment of making wee religious by Act of Parliament, moved the second reading of a Bill " For the Suppression of Trading on the L o rd's Day." The motion was carried by a majority of two to one (139 to 69), after a brief and insignificant conversation• Mr. Milnes, the youthful Member for Pontefract, oppose d ,. the Bill, and displayed s ome n otio n o f r i g ht p r i nc i p l es , be'. he lapsed into the silly c on ce it th a t th e measure or i g i n ated with a class of persons like unto the Puritans two centuries since, who, under the pretence of reforming the Churl h , pulled down the Monarchy, and well nigh buried every useful institution beneath its ruins. We were glad to final that the opponents of the Bill were content silently to re cord their opposition, leaving its fate to be sealed w hen its hypocritical buffoonery shall have been show n up in Com mittee. At the same time, we were more than asto nished to observe many Members who claim a prac tical acquaintance with the great principle s of pro restant dissent, taking part with those who c ontend that articles of faith, and systems of discipline, ou ght to be drawn upend enforced by law. Amongst this number was that nonpareil nonconformist, Mr. Edward Baines, th e Member for Leeds. If Dissenters and their accredit" d organs will countenance this species of tom-foolery, ',. /e know of no just ground upon which they can refuse payment of Church-rates, nor any of the claims which vi le Established Church arrogates to itself. If spiritual injunctions are to be enforced by human statutes, we had better at one resign our pulpits to bands of theological police, armed with appropriate authority for the chastisement of disob e di ence . If t h e re li g i ous world really desidcrate this Bill, then no false delicacy in the matter can be tolerated, and it must be renderod as perfec t as the ingenuity of persecution, and the spirit of intole rance, can make it. It is not enough to restrict its pr°7 visions to the enactment " that no person on the Lord's D a / shall do, or employ any person to do, any manner of la bour or work : nor allowed to buy or sell any goods , animals, effects, or things," under certain pecuniary Pe nalties. No, no ; this is trifling altogether. If these good folks will have a religion made and enforced by Act of Par liament, it must be searching, sincere, and comprehensiv e ' " Any manner of work," must not be confined to heating an oven, and devouring its contents ; but made as wide a s the . Mosaic ritual, If th e b a k er i s to b e pun i s h e d, th e beast must be protected ; if a hungry boy may not buy a h ° , roll, the bishop mu s t no t b e a ll owe d to ro ll a b ou t in ' 5 , 13 carriage, with his man-servant on the box, and a brace ( 3 ,'„ footmen holding fast by th e b races b e hi n d, w hil e so me hai r dozen men-servants and maid-servants are debarred frenir spiritual comfort by pr e p ar i ng so lid an d savoury things for the lowly follower o f Hi m w h o k new not w h ere to lay 11 '_ 5 head. Let this eq ua l ru l e b e i mpart i a ll y app li e d, a nd the re is no danger th a t a Bill to ma k e men sp i r i tua l by statut e will receive the santion of either House of Parliament. We are well aware that this sy stem of legislative coer cion in matters of religion is not without its advocat,re amongst men o f h o ly d es i res , w h o li g h t t h e i r zea l at the altars of episcopacy. But . have they ever reflected -, tiP ° . the deadeni ng i n fl uence o f l aw w h en b roug h t i n a id of sP: . ritual affairs, and th e f orma l c h aracter o f t h ose d u ties %Ol e o : observance haz a re s no sacr ifi ce ? T rue re li g i on actg the heart, not in the way of fortune, acquired by the acx Bard of moral injuncti ons , b u t i n t h e pursu i t o f that Pe,, ho which no wealth can purchase, nor power disturb• early disciples of our enlivenin g faith sought no succour from human aid, nor did they covet the gains of the un g odly. For them neither the mountain's cave, nor the solitude of the wilderness, the thunders of the law, nor the refinements of torture, had any ter rors, but strong in the integrity of their belief, and its ennobling influence upon the hearts and hopes of men, they moved on, waging fearful war against the pride and power of the world, until its benignant sway was thrown over the fairest and choicest scenes of the earth. And, we firmly believe it is destined still to move on, until the whole race of man shall be brought to feel and own its righteous authority. Yet it has to encounter many obsta cles, not so much from the keen and polished edge . 01 scepticism, as from the thoughtless extravagance of mis taken friends, and the more cunning devices of priestly_ artifice, and still more th an a ll, f rom t h e experiments of spiritual pride, which fancies that the arm of Omnipotence_ can be strengthened by an a lli ance w i t h t h e va i n glories °f the world. We w o u ld respect f u ll y suggest to th e se piou s _ persons, who arc s o i n t ent to a d vance t h e sp i r i tua l interest s of the poor, to turn their attention to the causes of the till"' ries which they endure, and the means of their alleviation. This is " a manner of wo r k" which we confidently believe would be acceptable to that all-pervading power whose se" vice is perfect freedom.— Weekly True Sun. PROSECUTION O F THE P RESS .—I t appears that it was Mr. Justice Perrin, and not Sergeant Green, wh° in the case of Barry v. Staunton, promulgated the extraordinary doctrine that j ur y men , i n a c i v il act i on f or damages, we': not to estimate th e i n j ur y susta i ne d b y p l a i nt iff f rom the ev ie ; deuce he himself p ro d uce d, i n t h e p l ace w h ere h e wa s best known, known, but were t o guess at w h at h e m i g h t su ff er i n q uarter whyre he•was not k nown at a ll. Irish judges and j u ries seers to look upon the p ress i n t h e same light as the Tories vies Ministry, namely as a very squeezable commodity. A Cc" . jury has squeezed 1501. out of the Proprietor of the Morning Register—not%Nithstanding that the only witness produced by the plaintiff swore that Mr. Bari), had sustained no injury whatever in the opinion of his neighbours. " They manure these things better" in England. English juries generally c 5" t:mate a man's character at what it is worth. To the 1 1 1. who has no c h aracter to l ose they award the satisfaction ° paying the d e f en d ant ' s costs in addition to his own, and to hil l ' who has sustained little or no damage they award the smallest possible quantity of th e d ross w hi c h h e covets, and for w hich he is willing t o ex p ose hi mse lf an d hi s affairs in a cour t °r justice. Irish juries in libel prosecutions are wonderfully urla; nimous. :They allow th e j u d ge to i nterpret both the law and the facts of the case, and such is their veneration for ermin ° ail horse hair, that if the wearer only told them that it sva s libel to call a black pig a parson, they would find a verdict ac" cordingly. —Freeman' s Journal. THE TRUTH TOLD BY MISTAKE.—I Shall ilot easily forget the sarcasm of Swift's simile as he told us of the Prince of Orange's harangue to the mob of Portsmouth "We are come," said he, " for your good for all good s ' " A universal principle," added Swift, "of all government; hut, like most other truths, only told by mistake."--- - cl F t Churchill. Con 11, T. COX SAVORY, G o ld sm i t h , & c., 47, Corn b _ London (Seven D oors f rom Gracechurch-street), informs the he, that he has a considerable variety of SECOND-HAND G° h , WATCHES, any of which h e o ff ers a t EIGHT GUINEAS."' They have all been carefully examined, and are warranted. Watches purchased in exchange. BIRTHS. On the Bth inst., at Dunstable Villa, Richmond, the Right 1 100 ' Lady Louth, of a son. On the 6th inst., the lady of J. Vaughan, Esq., of WatlinßtOn park, Oxfordshire, of a daughter. On the 9th inst., at Hampstead, th e l a d y o f R . B ra dford, E 6 q" of a daughter. On the 7th inst., in Bloomfield-street, the lady of G. at . Esq., of a daughter. MARRIED. eor ge On the 12th inst ,at Marylebone Ch urc h, Captain Fin .. Logan, of the Madras Army, thi r d son of W. Logan, E s q., of the galton, Renfrewshire, to E ugen i a E mma, youngest daughter of late Hon. M. T. Harris, of th e M a d ras C i v i l Serv i ce . On the 12th inst., at St. Ann's, Westminster, Mr. John Your l i co' Bear-street, Leicest er square, to El i za, the e ld es t laughter " the late Thomas Lewis, Es q., q., o f Bermondsey. Jr DIED. daughter of A. l e y, young 13th wifeagedo; F. Bat son Ealiyzebeth, eldostt On son of the Right Hon. Sir J. Bayley, Bart. On the 6th ins t., at t h e Rectory, Woodmancote, Sussex, the Rev , John Rideout, M.A., aged 70. On the 6th i nst., E m il y N ort h ey, t h e . i n f ant d aug hter of J. G. Rowley, Esq. On the 6th inst., at Atherstone, Warwickshire, John lic' cd Chapman, Esq., aged 78. On the sth inst., in Green's-row, Chelsea, H. Hughes, Esq' , aged 82. On the 23d ult., at Ivy-cottage, Keppel-strert, Whitehead's° grove, Chelsea, Mr. George Pritchard, aged 65. On the 10th i ns t., a t Teignmouth, Rear-Admiral Tobin, C.D.s aged 69. On the 13th inst., at Flexford, near Guildford, Hamilla Katharine) infant daughter of Captain C. Mangles. On thelo ,e t a h r. inst., at Aldersey-place, Guildford, M rs. West, in her 78th year. --- • London: Printed and Published by AIURDO YOUNG, of ISe. 112, Strand, at The Suit Office, No. 112, Strand, in the couutY of Middlesex.—Monday, April 16, 1838.